♥ Rub butter into the flour mixture until it resembles fine breadcrumbs♥ Stir in sultanas♥ Add nearly all of the milk all at once

(sometimes you won't need all of it)♥ Mix to a soft, but not sticky, dough with a knife♥ Turn on to a lightly floured work surface and knead quickly until smooth♥ Roll out to about 1cm (1/2") thick♥ Cut into 7 or 8 rounds with a 6.5cm (2 1/2") cutter♥ Transfer to a greased baking sheet and brush the tops with milk♥ Bake for 7-10 mins or until well risen and golden♥ Cool on a wire rack

♥ Smack any hands that try to pinch one before they have cooled a little

Once cooled slather them with clotted cream and jam and scoff!

Please don't blame me if you can't do your jeans up the next day!

YUM :o)

I googled 'scone rhyme' and this came up

"I asked the maid, in a dulcet tone
To order me a buttered scone
The silly girl has been and gone
And ordered me a buttered scon"

What do you call them?
I call them scons but write them as scones (i think?)

P.S
Guess what??
I went swimming last night!
It wasn't nearly as rubbish as I'd remembered
I might even stretch to say that I actually quite enjoyed the swimming bit
dressing is still an issue though
and standing on the wet, cold floor is just gross
I had forgotten about that bit
My back is MUCH happier today though(big smile)
so I WILL be keeping it up

23 comments:

Mmmmmm - they look delicious! This is a little silly, but I vary my 'scon'/'scone' depending on who I'm talking to and whether they sound posh or not. I am actually a 'scon' girl too, though. I loved the rhyme!!! Who's have thought a poem about scones could be so amusing??? I'm glad you enjoyed your swim. My advice is to take a spare (old) towel to put on the floor, to stand & dry your feet on. ;-)Carlyx

They look sooo yummy Jooles, but I have to have strawberry jam and put the jam on first then the cream! I must be posh as I pronounce it scone not scon - but I really am not! Glad to hear you 'enjoyed' your swim, hope it helps your back xx

Glad your back is feeling better, but am with you on the après swim, very rubbish, in centerparcs they have a massive hairdryer thing you can stand in as a family, I've always been to stingy to use it, but it looks a-maz-ing!

These look SO good, thanks for sharing the recipe. I have never made scones and I will try you recipe as it looks very simple. I pronounce it scone to rhyme with "on" - scone to rhyme with "stone" is posh, but here in Yorkshire everyone tells me it's the other way round. But here they call a cake a bun and a roll a teacake so what do they know?? ;-)

ha ha I thought i was so grown up when I boght a copy of that cook book off our milkman years and years ago ! does anyone still have a milkman ? they were fantastic :)xxxxxxx noticed a big bite out of one !! yummy yum yum